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The  World's  Best  Books 


in  the  line  of  your  genius,"  is 
Emerson's  advice,  speaking  of  books, 
and  Ruskin  conveys  the  same  idea 
when  he  says:  "Every  man  has  his  own  field, 
and  can  only  by  his  own  sense  discover  what 
is  good  for  him." 

Nevertheless,  in  the  selection  of  literature  the 
advice  and  opinions  of  scholars  have  always 
been  eagerly  sought.  The  discussion  which 
followed  the  first  publication  of  Sir  John 
Lubbock's  "One  Hundred  Best  Books,"  and 
which  has  gone  on  intermittently  ever  since, 
has  done  much  good  for  it  has  resulted  in  the 
formation  of  many  lists  from  which  any  reader 
may  choose  without  danger  of  serious  error. 

The  general  interest  in  the  subject  has  been 
much  intensified  of  late  by  the  announcement 
that  President  Eliot  of  Harvard  University  is 
selecting  a  group  of  books  to  fill  a  five-foot 
shelf.  This  list,  so  far  as  made  public,  is  given 
in  these  pages,  and  also  such  other  lists  as 
seem  best  calculated  to  aid  the  discriminating 
bookbuyer  in  the  judicious  assembling  of  a 
home  library. 

Next  in  importance  to  the  proper  selection  of 
books  is  their  proper  housing.  Books  should 


be  chosen  like  friends,  and,  like  friends,  they 
should  be  cherished. 

Therefore  it  becomes  the  booklover  to  pay  fit- 
ting tribute  to  his  favorite  authors  by  housing 
them  in  quarters  worthy  of  their  rank  and 
dignity — so  inviting  indeed,  that  they  will  be 
frequently  consulted,  and  never  know  the 
lonesomeness  of  neglect. 


THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

The  Best  Books  for  Young  People 

The  choosing  of  books  for  a  home  library  is 
always  a  pleasant  task.  The  presence  of 
children  in  the  house  adds  to  the  pleasure 
but  no  less  to  the  responsibility  of  selection. 
The  graded  list  of  books  for  young  people 
which  follows  was  compiled  by  Hamilton  W. 
Mabie.  It  is  printed  here  by  kind  permis- 
sion of  the  LADIES'  HOME  JOURNAL  and  will 
be  found  of  great  assistance  to  teachers  as 
well  as  parents. 

Books  for  Children  Under  Five  Years  of  Age 
GIRLS 

Mother  Goose 

Classic  Nursery  Tales — Cinderella;  The  Three 
Bears;  Little  Red  Riding  Hood;  Hop  o' 

My  Thumb,  etc 

Fables  and  Folk  Stories  .  .  H.  E.  Scudder 
The  Storyland  ....  Elizabeth  Harrison 
In  the  Child's  World  .  .  Emilie  Poulsson 

Small  Songs  for  Small  Singers 

The  Story  Hour 

Kate  D.  Wiggin  and  Nora  A.  Smith 
The  Good  Fairy  and  the  Bunnies 

Allen  A.  Green 

Cat  Stories  ....  Helen  Hunt  Jackson 
Bible  Stories  .  .  .  ,  ° , 

BOYS 

Mother  Goose  .  (Illustrated  edition  by  Nister) 

The  Book  of  the  Zoo;  The  Book  of  the  Farm; 

The  Moo  Cow  Book;  Our  Dog  Friends 

Animal  Books  by  Ernest  Nister 

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THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

Fables  and  Folk  Stories  .  H.  E.  Scudder 
Fairy  Tales  .  .  Grimm's  and  Andersen's 
The  Stories  Mother  Nature  Told  Her  Children 

Jane  Andrews 

jEsop's  Fables 

Child's  Garden  of  Verses  .  R.  L.  Stevenson 
Bible  Stories 

For  Children  from  Five  to  Ten  Years  of  Age 
GIRLS 

Alice  in  Wonderland ;  Through  the  Looking- 

Glass Lewis  Carroll 

Lullaby-Land Eugene  Field 

The  Seven  Little  Sisters  .  Jane  Andrews 
Primer  of  Work  and  Play  .  Edith  G.  Alger 
Little  Goody  Two  Shoes 

Edited  by  Charles  Welsh 

Miss  Muffet's  Christmas  Party 

Samuel  M.  Crothers 

Goops  and  How  to  be  Them ;  More  Goops  and 

How  Not  to  be  Them  .   Gelett  Burgess 

Hiawatha Longfellow 

Five  Minute  Stories  .  Laura  E.  Richards 
The  Little  Lame  Prince;  The  Adventures  of  a 

Brownie  .  Dinah  Maria  Mulock-Craik 
The  Peterkin  Papers  .  .  Lucretia  Hale 
Legends  of  King  Arthur  .  Frances  N.  Greene 
The  Rose  and  the  King  .  .  Thackeray 
Child  Stories  from  the  Masters,  Maud  Menefee 
At  the  Back  of  the  North  Wind 

George  Macdonald 

Ballads  for  Little  Folk  .  Alice  and  Phoebe  Gary 

BOYS 
The  King  of  the  Golden  River     .     .     Ruskin 

Water  Babies Kingsley 

Just  So  Stories Kipling 

Nights  with  Uncle  Remus  ....  Harris 
Glimpses  of  Nature  for  Little  Folks,  K.  A.  Griel 

[6] 


THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

Crib  and  Fly :   A  Tale  of  Two  Terriers 

Edited  by  Charles  Welsh 

The  Boy's  King  Arthur        .        Sidney  Lanier 
Wonder  Book  of  Horses ;  Story  of  Roland ;  Story 
of  Siegfried ;  Story  of  the  Golden  Age 
.     .     .     .     .     .     .     .    James  Baldwin 

Visit  to  London E.  V.  Lucas 

Toby  Tyler     . James  Otis 

Gods  and  Heroes     .      .      .      R.  E.  Francillon 

Buz Maurice  Noel 

The  Jungle  Book;  The  Second  Jungle  Book 

Kipling 

Rab  and  His  Friends        .        Dr.  John  Brown 

Black  Beauty Anna  Sewell 

Ten  Boys  Who  Lived  on  the  Road  from  Long 
Ago  to  Now    ....    Jane  Andrews 
Stories  of  Great  Americans 

Edward  Eggleston. 

Wonder  Book;  Tanglewood  Tales,    Hawthorne 

For  Children  from  Ten  to  Fifteen  Years  of  Age 
GIRLS 

Little  Women;  Little  Men;  An  Old  Fashioned 
Girl;  Under  the  Lilacs;  Jo's  Boys 

Louisa  M.  Alcott 

Two  Little  Waifs;  Us  .  .  Mrs.  Molesworth 
Tales  from  Shakespeare  ....  Lamb 
Franconia  Stories  .  .  .  Jacob  Abbott 
Sara  Crewe ;  Little  St.  Elizabeth 

Mrs.  Burnett 

Pilgrim's  Progress Bunyan 

Silas  Marner;  The  Mill  on  the  Floss 

George  Eliot 

Undine Foque 

Lorna  Doone Blackmore 

Hildegard  Series  (5)  .  Laura  E.  Richards 
The  Little  Minister  .  .  .  .  J.  M.  Barrie 
Rebecca  of  Sunnybrook  Farm,  Kate  D.  Wiggin 

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THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

Rebecca  of  Sunnybrook  Farm;  New  Chroni- 
cles of  Rebecca  .  .  Kate  D.  Wiggin 
Adventures  of  Dorothy  .  .  Jocelyn  Lewis 
Gypsy  Books  .  Elizabeth  Stuart  Phelps  Ward 
Little  Pussy  Willow  .  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe 
Six  to  Sixteen  .  .  Juliana  Horatia  Ewing 
Memories  of  a  London  Doll  .  Mrs.  Fairstar 
Toinette's  Philip  .  .  .  C.  V.  Jamison 
Abbe  Constantin  ....  Ludovic  Halevy 
The  Daisy  Chain ;  Pillars  of  the  House 

Charlotte  M.  Yonge 

BOYS 

Arabian  Nights Lang  edition 

J.  Fenimore  Cooper's  Novels 

Jolly  Fellowship Stockton 

The  Nurnberg  Stove  ....  Ouida 
The  Hoosier  School-Boy  .  Edward  Eggleston 
The  Land  of  the  Midnight  Sun  .  Du  Chaillu 
Tom  Brown's  School  Days  .  .  Hughes 
Two  Years  Before  the  Mast  .  .  R.  H.  Dana 
Two  Little  Savages  .  .  E.  Thompson  Seton 
Boy's  Life  of  Lincoln  .  .  .  Helen  Nicolay 

The  Hill H.  A.  Vachell 

Stories  of  Adventure ;  Boys'  Heroes  E.  E.  Hale 
Squirrels  and  Other  Fur-Bearers;  Birds  and 

Bees Burroughs 

Treasure  Island  .  .  .  .  .  Stevenson 
The  Story  of  a  Bad  Boy  ....  Aldrich 

Masterman  Ready F.  Marryat 

The  Swiss  Family  Robinson      .      J.  R.  Wyss 
Rip  Van  Winkle;  The  Legend  of  Sleepy  Hol- 
low       Irving 

Around  the  World  in  the  Sloop  "Spray" 

J.  Slocum 

Boys  of  Other  Countries  .  Bayard  Taylor 
Two  Little  Confederates,  Thomas  Nelson  Page 
Aztec  Treasure  House  .  Thomas  A.  Janvier 
Westward  Ho! Kingsley 

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THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

Birds  Through  an  Opera  Glass 

F.  A.  Merriam  Bailey 

Translation  of  the  Odyssey  .  G.  H.  Palmer 
Three  Greek  Children ;  The  Young  Macedonian 

Story  of  the  Iliad  .  .  .  Church 
The  Travels  of  Marco  Polo  .  .  T.  W.  Knox 

Cadet  Days Charles  King 

Life  at  West  Point  .  .  .  H.  I.  Hancock 
Knocking  'Round  the  Rockies 

Ernest  Ingersoll 

Hans  Brinker  .  .  .  Mary  Mapes  Dodge 
The  Half  Back;  Behind  the  Line 

Ralph  Henry  Barbour 

Life  of  Garfield  .  .  .  W.  O.  Stoddard 
The  Man  Without  a  Country  .  E.  E.  Hale 
Blue  Jackets  of  1898;  Battle  Fields  of  '61 

W.  J.  Abbot 

Plutarch  for  Boys  and  Girls  .  John  S.  White 
Heart,  a  Schoolboy's  Journal  (trans,  by  Isabel 

Hapgood)  .  .  Edmondo  De  Amicis 
Lays  of  Ancient  Rome  .  .  .  Macaulay 
Harold Lytton 

For  Young  People  From  Fifteen  to  Twenty  Years  of  Age. 
GIRLS 

John  Halifax,  Gentleman  .  Mrs.  Mulock-Craik 
New  England  Nun  and  Other  Stories 

Mary  E.  Wilkins 

T.  B.  Aldrich's  Short  Stories 
Jane  Austen's  Novels 
Charles  Reade's  Novels 

Essays  of  Elia Lamb 

Sesame  and  Lilies;  Crown  of  Wild  Olive 

Ruskin 

Little  Rivers ;  The  Ruling  Passion 

Henry  van  Dyke 

Uarda;  Homo  Sum Ebers 

Gold  Elsie E.  Marlitt 

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THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

To  Have  and  to  Hold      .      .      Mary  Johnston 

Thomas  Nelson  Page's  Short  Stories 

Sant  Ilario;  Saracinesca;  Corleone;  Marietta 
F.  Marion  Crawford 

Penelope  in  England ;  Penelope's  Progress ;  Pen- 
elope in  Ireland  .  Kate  Douglas  Wiggin 

The  Rise  of  Silas  Lapham;  An  Indian  Summer 
Howells 

Little  Masterpieces  of  English  Poetry  by  Brit- 
ish and  American  Authors 
.    .    Henry  van  Dyke  and  Hardin  Craig 

American  Anthology ;  Victorian  Anthology 

Stedman 

BOYS 

Ben  Hur Lew  Wallace 

Rob  Roy;  Ivanhoe;  The  Heart  of  Midlothian; 
The  Abbot;  Kenilworth;  The  Pirate; 
Boys'  and  Girls'  Plutarch 

Sir  Walter  Scott 

The  Sketch  Book         .         Washington  Irving 
The  Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast  Table  .  Holmes 

Representative  Men Emerson 

Fenimore  Cooper's  Novels 

Kim;  Captain  Courageous       .       .       Kipling 

Jack  Hazard J.  T.  Trowbridge 

Kidnaped ;  David  Balfour ;  The  Master  of  Bal- 

lantrae Stevenson 

Henry  Esmond;  The  Virginians;  The  New- 
comes;  Pendennis    .     .     .     Thackeray 
David  Copperfield;  Nicholas  Nickleby;  Martin 
Chuzzlewit ;  Tale  of  Two  Cities 

Dickens 

Francis  Parkman's  Histories 
Biographies  in  the  Great  Writers  Series 
Biographies  in  the  American  Statesmen  Series 
Biographies  in  the  American  Men  of  Letters 

Series 
Three  Guardsmen;  The  Black  Tulip   .   Dumas 

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THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

The  Call  of  the  Wild  .  .  .  Jack  London 
The  Cloister  and  the  Hearth;  Put  Yourself  in 

His  Place  ....  Charles  Reade 
The  Man  with  the  Broken  Ear ;  The  King  of  the 

Mountains      .      .      .      Edmond  About 

The  Virginian Owen  Wister 

Short  Stories  of  the  English  People 

J.  R.  Green 

John  Fiske's  Histories 

The  Rise  of  the  Dutch  Republic  .  J.  L.  Motley 
Brave  Little  Holland  .  .  .  W.  E.  Griffis 
Ferdinand  and  Isabella  .  .  .  Prescott 
Charles  the  Fifth  .  .  .  William  Robertson 
American  Revolution  .  .  G.  O.  Trevelyan 

Charles  the  Bold J.  F.  Kirk 

Makers  of  Florence;  Makers  of  Venice;  Royal 

Edinburgh  ....  Mrs.  Oliphant 
Ave  Roma  Immortalis  .  F.  Marion  Crawford 
Story  of  Germany  .  .  .  .  S.  B.  Gould 
Story  of  Norway  .  .  .  .  H.  H.  Boyesen 
The  Conquest  of  Mexico  .  .  .  Prescott 
Heroes  of  the  Middle  West  Mrs.  Catherwood 

The  Conquest Dye 

Beginnings  of  a  Nation  .  Edward  Eggleston 
Americans  of  1776  .  ...  Schouler 
The  Winning  of  the  West  »  Roosevelt 

Life  of  Caesar Froude 

Life  of  Johnson Boswell 

Early  Life  of  Charles  James  Fox;  Life  of  Ma- 

caulay Trevelyan 

Life  of  Scott Lockhart 

Life  of  Nelson Southey 

The  Four  Georges Thackeray 

Life  of  Lincoln  ....  Nicolay  and  Hay 
Life  of  Robert  E.  Lee 

.  John  Esten  Cook  or  W.  P.  Trent 
George  Washington  .  Horace  E.  Scudder 
Ralph  Waldo  Emerson  .  .  .  Holmes 
Oliver  Cromwell  ....  John  Morley 

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THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

One  Hundred  Best  Books  For 
Boys  and  Girls 

Here  is  another  splendid  list  of  "best  books" 
for  young  people.  It  was  prepared  especi- 
ally for  this  collection  by  W.  D.  Howe,  Ph.  D. 
English  Department  Indiana  University. 

The  Bible 

Julius  Caesar  (or  selections)       .      Shakespeare 

x^Robinson  Crusoe Defoe 

.-Treasure  Island Stevenson 

Gulliver's  Travels Swift 

Kenilworth Scott 

The  Talisman Scott 

Ivanhoe Scott 

W-Oliver  Twist Dickens 

•J*.  A  Tale  of  Two  Cities      ....     Dickens 
« *^T)avid  Copperfield Dickens 

vThe  Old  Curiosity  Shop     ....     Dickens 

Christmas  Stories Dickens 

The  Mill  on  the  Floss        .        .        .  _ .     Eliot 

<^?:>i\as  Marner Eliot 

Westward  Ho! Kingsley 

^  Water  Babies Kingsley 

The  Last  Days  of  Pompeii        .        .        Lytton 

i^The  Vicar  of  Wakefield        .        .       Goldsmith 

K'Ths  Pilgrim's  Progress        .        .        .     Bunyan 
Fairy  Tales Grimm 

t..   Fairy  Tales Andersen 

Hans  Brinker Dodge 

The  Prince  and  the  Pauper      .      Mark  Twain 

tx  Tom  Sawyer Mark  Twain 

Autobiography Franklin 

The  Vision  of  Sir  Launfal        .       .          Lowell 

Tom  Brown  at  Rugby Hughes 

Tom  Brown  at  Oxford        .       .       .      Hughes 

>S  Alice's  Adventures  in  Wonderland     .     Carroll 

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THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 


Two  Little  Confederates       ....     Page 

Cudjo's  Cave      ......     Trowbridge 

A  Watcher  in  the  Woods       .       .       .       Sharp 
The  Pied  Piper  of  Hamelin         .         Browning 
Wake  Robin      ......     Burroughs 

Birds  and  Poets      .....     Burroughs 

The  Ancient  Mariner       .        .        .     Coleridge 

Arabian  Nights 

/Csop's  Fables 

Swiss  Family  Robinson       ....     Wyss 

Child  Rhymes       .......     Riley 

Rebecca      .........     Wiggin 

Wild  Animals  I  Have  Known 

.......     Thompson-Seton 

Jackanapes      ........     Ewing 

The  Age  of  Fable     ....     Bulfinch-Hale 

Rudder  Grange      ......     Stockton 

The  Oregon  Trail      .....     Parkman 

Norse  Stories     ........     Mabie 

Stories  from  the  Odyssey      .      .      .      Church 
Old  Greek  Folk  Stories      .       .       .       Peabody 
Captain  Courageous         .         ...     Kipling 

Black  Beauty      .......     Sewell 

True  Stories  from  History  and  Biography 

.........     Hawthorne 

Young  Folks'  History  of  the  United  States 

.........     Higginson 

Christopher  Columbus      ....     Abbott 

Hero  Tales  from  American  History    .    Lodge 
Boy  Life  of  Napoleon  ......     Foa 

The  Story  of  Washington       .       .       .     Brooks 
The  Life  of  Lincoln  for  Boys  and  Girls 

..........     Moores 

Lost  in  the  Jungle      .....     Chaillu 

Golden  Numbers    ....     Wiggin  and  Smith 

Lullaby  Land      ........     Field 

Uncle  Remus     ........     Harris 

A  Dog  of  Flanders     ......    Ouida 

Don  Quixote      ......    Cervantes 

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THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 


King  of  the  Golden  River        .        Ruskin 
/The  Little  Lame  Prince      ....     Craik 

The  Queens  of  England       .       .       Strickland 

»^The  Child's  Garden  of  Verses      .      Stevenson 

XTales  from  Shakespeare      .      .      .          Lamb 

^-  The  Man  Without  a  Country       .       .       Hale 

'""The  Jungle  Book      ......     Kipling 

The  Story  of  My  Life      .....     Keller 

Up  from  Slavery     .....    Washington 

Memoirs       .........    Grant 

Story  of  a  Bad  Boy     ....     Aldrich 

atha      .......     Longfellow 

Evangeline       ......     Longfellow 

Snow-Bound      .......     Whittier 

The  Alhambra      .......     Irving 

..'The  Sketch  Book      ......     Irving 

"O'Tanglewood  Tales      ....      Hawthorne 

^,-Twice  Told  Tales     .....     Hawthorne 

The  Wonder  Book      ....     Hawthorne 

^    Little  Women      .......    Alcott 

.Sara  Crewe     ........     Burnett 

^  Little  Lord  Fauntleroy       .        .        .     Burnett 
Marmion      .........     Scott 

The  Lady  of  The  Lake      ....      Scott 

Lays  of  Ancient  Rome      .      .      .      Macaulay 
Arthur  Bonnicastle     .....     Holland 

Childe  Harold,  Cantos  III-IV         .         Byron 
Idylls  of  the  King     .....     Tennyson 

Being  a  Boy      .......    Warner 

The  Hoosier  School-Boy         .      .      Eggleston 
1*.  The  Spy    .         ........     Cooper 

'   Last  of  the  Mohicans    ....      Cooper 

Sesame  and  Lilies     .....      Ruskin 

John  Halifax       .....       Mulock-Craik 

Scottish  Chiefs  Porter 


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THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

Farrar's  Famous  List  of  Five 

In  his  little  book  on  "Books  that  Have  Helped 
Me"  Canon  Frederick  W.  Farrar  names  the 
following  authors  and  books,  besides  the 
Bible,  as  the  most  helpful: 

Bunyan  Shakespeare 

Dante  Milton 

Imitation  of  Christ 


Canon  Farrar's  List  of  Twelve 

Canon  Farrar,  also  said:  "If  all  the  books 
in  the  world  were  in  a  blaze,  the  first  twelve 
which  I  would  snatch  out  of  the  flames  would 
be: 

The  Bible  Imitation  of  Christ 

Homer  ^Eschylus 

Thucydides  Tacitus 

Virgil  Marcus  Aurelius 

Dante  Shakespeare 

Milton  Wadsworth 

S rt 

Of  living  authors  I  would  save  first  the  works 

of  Tennyson,  Browning  and  Ruskin." 


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THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

The  Hundred  Best  Books 

SIR  JOHN  LUBBOCK'S  LIST 
This,  the  first  of  the  many  lists  of  "the  hun- 
dred best  books,"  was  the  result  of  the  interest 
aroused  by  a  lecture  on  the  subject  of  books 
and  reading  delivered  by  Sir  John  Lubbock 
at  the  opening,  in  January,  1886,  of  the  Work- 
ing Men's  College,  London.  The  list  was  first 
published  in  an  incomplete  form  by  the  PALL 
MALL  GAZETTE,  and  caused  much  discussion, 
participated  in  by  eminent  British  and  Amer- 
ican scholars.  Later  the  complete  list,  as 
finally  revised  by  Sir  John  Lubbock,  was  pub- 
lished in  the  CONTEMPORARY  REVIEW.  Here 
are  the  books  which  that  noted  scholar,  after 
careful  deliberation,  pronounced  the  "best 
worth  reading:" 

The  Bible. 

NON-CHRISTIAN  MORALISTS 

Meditations Marcus  Aurelius 

Epictetus 

Analects Confucius 

Le  Bouddha  et  sa  Religion  (St.  Hilaire) 

Ethics Aristotle 

Koran Mahomet 

THEOLOGY  AND  DEVOTION 

Apostolic  Fathers      .      .       Wakes  Collection 

Confessions St.  Augustine 

Imitation  of  Christ     .     .     Thomas  a  Kempis 

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THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

Pensees Pascal 

Tractatus  Theologico-Politicus       .       Spinoza 
Catechism  of  Positive  Philosophy  (Congreve) 

Compte 

Analogy Butler 

Holy  Living  and  Holy  Dying  .  Jeremy  Taylor 

Pilgrim's  Progress Bunyan 

Christian  Year Keble 

CLASSICS 

Politics Aristotle 

Plato's  Dialogues — at  any  rate  the  Phaedo  and 
Republic. 

De  Corona Demosthenes 

Lucretius 

Plutarch 

Horace 

De  Officiis ;  De  Amicitia ;  De  Senectute  .  Cicero 

EPIC  POETRY 

Iliad  and  Odyssey Homer 

Hesiod 

Virgil 

Nibelungen  Lied 

Morte  d'Arthur Malory 

EASTERN  POETRY 

Maha-Bharata,  Ramayana,  eptomized  by  Tal- 
boys  Wheeler  in  the  first  two  volumes  of 
his  History  of  India 

Shah-Nameh  (trans,  by  Atkinson)     .     Firdusi 

She-King  (Chinese  Odes) 

GREEK  DRAMATISTS 

Prometheus ;  House  of  Atreus ;  Trilogy  or  Persae 

iEschylus 

CEdipus,  Trilogy Sophocles 

Medea Euripides 

The  Knights Aristophanes 

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THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

HISTORY 
Herodotus 
Thucydides 

Germania Tacitus 

Decline  and  Fall Gibbon 

Greece Grote 

Short  History  of  the  English  People    .    Green 

Anabasis Xenophon 

Tacitus 
Livy 

England Hume 

French  Revolution Carlyle 

PHILOSOPHY 

Novum  Organum Bacon 

Logic  and  Political  Economy    ....     Mill 

Origin  of  Species Darwin 

Wealth  of  Nations  (part  of)        .        .       Smith 

Human  Knowledge Berkeley 

Discours  sur  la  Methode  .  .  .  Descartes 
Conduct  of  the  Understanding  .  Locke 
History  of  Philosophy Lewes 

TRAVELS 

Voyages Cook 

Travels Humboldt 

Naturalist  in  the  Beagle      .      .      .      Darwin 

POETRY  AND  GENERAL  LITERATURE 

Shakespeare 

Paradise  Lost  and  the  shorter  poems  .  Milton 

Divina  Commedia Dante 

Faerie  Queene Spenser 

Poems Dryden 

Morris*   (or  if  expurgated,   Clarke's  or  Mrs. 
Haweis'  edition)     ....     Chaucer 
Gray 
Burns 
Poems     , Scott 

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THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

Mr.  Arnolds'  Selection     .     .     .     Wordsworth 

Heine 

Pope 

Southey 

Vicar  of  Wakefield Goldsmith 

Gulliver's  Travels Swift 

Robinson  Crusoe Defoe 

The  Arabian  Nights 

Don  Quixote Cervantes 

Johnson Boswell 

Selected  Works  (Payne) Burke 

Bacon;  Addison;  Hume;  Montaigne;  Macau- 
lay;  Emerson Essayists 

Moliere 
Sheridan 

Zadig Voltaire 

Past  and  Present Carlyle 

Faust ;  Wilhelm  Meister  .  .  .  Goethe 
Natural  History  of  Selbourne  .  .  White 
Self-Help Smiles 

MODERN  FICTION 

Either  Emma  or  Pride  and  Prejudice 

Miss  Austen 

Vanity  Fair  and  Pendennis  .  .  Thackeray 
Pickwick  and  David  Copperfield  .  Dickens 

Adam  Bede George  Eliot 

Westward  Ho! Kingsley 

Last  Days  of  Pompeii  .  .  .  Bulwer-Lytton 
Scott's  Novels 


THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

John  Ruskin's  Opinion 

The  publication  of  Sir  John  Lubbock's  list 
gave  rise,  as  any  list  of  the  kind  by  anybody 
of  note  is  sure  to  do  at  any  time,  to  much  con- 
troversy. Mr.  Ruskin,  for  instance,  when 
asked  to  comment  on  it,  said:  "Putting  my 
pen  lightly  through  the  needless — and  blot- 
tesquely  through  the  rubbish  and  poison  of 
Sir  John's  list — I  leave  enough  for  a  life's  lib- 
eral reading,  and  choice  for  any  true  worker's 
loyal  reading."  He  then  proceeded  to  cut 
out  all  the  works  on  morals  and  theology  at 
the  head  of  the  list  with  the  exception  of 
Jeremy  Taylor  and  "The  Pilgrim's  Progress." 
He  also  eliminated  Sophocles,  Euripides,  Gib- 
bon, Voltaire,  Hume,  Grote,  Southey,  Swift, 
Macaulay,  Emerson,  Thackeray,  George  Eliot, 
Kingsley  and  Bulwer-Lytton.  Of  the  phil- 
osophers, he  kept  only  one — Bacon;  of  the 
novelists  only  two — Scott  and  Dickens;  and 
of  the  essayists  only  Montaigne  and  Addison. 


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The  Best  Fifty  Books 

For  "Best  Fifty  Books  of  the  Greatest  Au- 
thors Condensed  for  Busy  People,"  by  Ben- 
jamin R.  Davenport,  the  author  selected  the 
following: 

Iliad Homer 

Inferno Dante 

Decameron Boccaccio 

Plays Shakespeare 

The  Arabian  Nights 

Don  Quixote Cervantes 

Paradise  Lost Milton 

Pilgrim's  Progress Bunyan 

Robinson  Crusoe .     Defoe 

Travels  of  Lemuel  Gulliver        .        .        Swift 

Essay  on  Man Pope 

Gil  Bias Le  Sage 

Tom  Jones Fielding 

Zadig Voltaire 

Rasselas Dr.  Johnson 

Tristram  Shandy Sterne 

Vicar  of  Wakefield Goldsmith 

Paul  and  Virginia St.  Pierre 

Life  of  Johnson Boswell 

Wilhelm  Meister's  Apprenticeship     .     Goethe 

Ivanhoe Scott 

The  Antiquary Scott 

Childe  Harold's  Pilgrimage     .      .      .      Byron 
Confessions  of  an  English  Opium  Eater 

De  Quincey 

The  Legend  of  Sleepy  Hollow          .          Irving 
The  Last  of  the  Mohicans         .       .      Cooper 

Sartor  Resartus Carlyle 

Vivian  Grey Disraeli 

Cousin  Pons Balzac 

Ten  Thousand  a  Year      ....      Warren 
Consuelo George  Sand 

[21  ] 


THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

The  Wandering  Jew Eugene  Sue 

The  Last  Days  of  Pompeii     .     Bulwer-Lytton 

My  Novel Bulwer-Lytton 

The  Count  of  Monte  Cristo      .       .       Dumas 

Vanity  Fair Thackeray 

Henry  Esmond     .......  Thackeray 

Jane  Eyre Charlotte  Bronte 

The  Scarlet  Letter      ....     Hawthorne 
Uncle  Tom's  Cabin     ....     Mrs.  Stowe 

Essays Macaulay 

David  Copperfield Dickens 

Tale  of  Two  Cities Dickens 

Westward  Ho! Kingsley 

John  Halifax,  Gentleman    .     .    Mulock-Craik 

Education Spencer 

Les  Miserables Victor  Hugo 

The  Woman  in  White Collins 

Middlemarch George  Eliot 

Ben  Hur  ....    Lew  Wallace 


[22] 


THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

Great  Works  of  25  Greatest  Authors 

James  Baldwin,  in  his  book  "The  Book  Lover" 
(Chicago:  A.  C.  McClurg  &  Co.)  gives  the 
following  list  of  27  books  by  25  authors — 
"each,  in  his  own  line  of  thought  and  endeavor, 
first  in  the  long  line  of  immortals:" 

Dialogues  (Jowett's  translation)  .  .  .  Plato 
Orations  on  the  Crown  .  .  .  Demosthenes 

Essays Bacon 

Orations  and  Political  Essays          .          Burke 

Essays Macaulay 

Essays Carlyle 

Select  Speeches Webster 

Essays Emerson 

Essays  of  Elia Charles  Lamb 

Ivanhoe Scott 

David  Copperfield Dickens 

Vanity  Fair Thackeray 

Hypatia Kingsley 

The  Mill  on  the  Floss  .  .  .  George  Eliot 
The  Marble  Faun  .  .  Nathaniel  Hawthorne 
The  Sketch  Book  .  .  Washington  Irving 

Les  Miserables Victor  Hugo 

Wilhelm  Meister  (Carlyle  trans.)      .      Goethe 

Don  Quixote Cervantes 

Iliad  (Derby's  or  Chapman's  trans.)  .  Homer 
Divina  Commedia  (Longfellow's  trans.)  Dante 

Paradise  Lost Milton 

Shakespeare 

Poems Mrs.  Browning 

Poetical  Works Longfellow 

Faust  (Bayard  Taylor's  trans.)  .  Goethe 
Odyssey  (Bryant's  trans.)  .  .  Homer 


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THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

The  Ten  Best  Novels 

Arranged  in  the  order  of  their  popularity,  as  de- 
cided by  the  readers  of  the  LITERARY  NEWS 
some  years  ago,  the  following  are  the  world's 
ten  best  novels: 

David  Copperfield Dickens 

Ivanhoe Scott 

Adam  Bede Eliot 

Scarlet  Letter Hawthorne 

Vanity  Fair Thackeray 

Jane  Eyre Bronte 

Uncle  Tom's  Cabin Stowe 

The  Newcomes Thackeray 

Les  Miserables Victor  Hugo 

John  Halifax,  Gentleman        .     Mulock-Craik 

The  Twenty  Best  Novels 

The  ten  next  best  novels,  as  decided  by  the 
same  constituency,  and  constituting,  with  the 
foregoing  list  of  ten,  the  world's  most  popular 
twenty,  are: 

Kenilworth Scott 

.Henry  Esmond Thackeray 

uRomola George  Eliot 

-Last  Days  of  Pompeii      ....     Lytton 

-Middlemarch Eliot 

Marble  Faun Hawthorne 

Pendennis .    Thackeray 

Hypatia Charles  Kingsley 

of  Seven  Gables     .     .     .     Hawthorne 
on  the  Floss George  Eliot 

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THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

Stories  of  American  and  English  Life 

The  following  list  of  high-grade  novels  por- 
traying the  life  of  different  sections  of  the 
United  States  and  England,  was  prepared 
by  Hamilton  W.  Mabie  for  the  LADIES'  HOME 
JOURNAL: 

NOVELS  OF  NEW  ENGLAND  LIFE 

Cape  Cod  Folks Greene 

Vesty  of  the  Basin Greene 

House  of  Seven  Gables     .      .       .    Hawthorne 

Elsie  Venner Holmes 

Country  Doctor Jewett 

Deephaven Jewett 

Oldtown  Folks Stowe 

Ministers'  Wooing Stowe 

Wood  Carver  of  'Lympus  .  .  .  Waller 
Doctor  Zay  .  .  .  .  v .  .  .  .  Ward 
Jane  Field Wilkins 

NOVELS  ABOUT  THE  SOUTH 

Kentucky  Cardinal Allen 

The  Kentuckians Fox 

Little  Shepherd  of  Kingdom  Come     .     .     Fox 

The  Battleground Glasgow 

Aunt  Jane  of  Kentucky Hall 

Audrey Johnston 

Prophet  of  the  Great  Smoky  Mountains 

Craddock 

The  Choir  Invisible Allen 

Old  Gentleman  of  the  Black  Stock      .      Page 

Red  Rock Page 

Colonel  Carter  of  Cartersville  .  .  .  Smith 
Alice  of  Old  Vincennes  .  .  .  Thompson 

Lady  Baltimore Wister 

Doctor  Sevier (HVle 

[26] 


THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

A 

The  Grandissimes Cable 

The  Partisan Simms 

NOVELS  OF  THE  WEST 

Isidro        Austin 

Hoosier  Schoolmaster  ....  Eggleston 
John  Bodewin's  Testimony  .  .  .  Foote 

Led-Horse  Claim Foote 

The  Plow- Woman Gates 

Ramona Jackson 

Whispering  Smith Spearman 

Blazed  Trail White 

The  Virginian Wister 

The  Spoilers Beach 

Log  of  a  Cowboy Adams 

Captain  of  the  Gray-Horse  Troop     .     Garland 

A  Country  Town Howe 

A  Certain  Rich  Man White 

NOVELS  WHICH  PICTURE  ENGLISH  LIFE 

Adam  Bede Eliot 

Middlemarch Eliot 

John  Halifax,  Gentleman  .  .  Mulock-Craik 
Diana  of  the  Crossways  .  .  .  Meredith 
Beauchamp's  Career  ....  Meredith 

Divine  Fire Sinclair 

Marriage  of  William  Ashe     ....     Ward 

Sir  George  Tressady Ward 

The  Country  House  ....  Galsworthy 
The  Man  of  Property  .  .  .  Galsworthy 
Exton  Manor Marshall 

NOVELS  OF  THE  SEA 

The  Typhoon Conrad 

Lord  Jim Conrad 

Toilers  of  the  Sea  .  .  .  ~ .  .  ,  .  Hugo 
Dr.  Luke  of  the  Labrador  .  .  .  Duncan 
The  Way  of  the  Sea  .  .  .  .  .  Duncan 
The  Seiners Connolly 

[26] 


THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

Water  Witch k    Cooper 

Westward  Ho! Kingsley 

Marooned Russell 

Tides  of  Barnegat Smith 

Iceland  Fisherman Loti 

The  Pilot Cooper 

HISTORICAL  NOVELS 

Harold Bulwer-Lytton 

Ivanhoe Scott 

Kenilworth Scott 

The  Crisis Churchill 

Tale  of  Two  Cities Dickens 

White  Company Doyle 

Ninety-Three .     Hugo 

Westward  Ho! Kingsley 

Hugh  Wynne, Mitchell 

Seats  of  the  Mighty Parker 

Ben  Hur Wallace 

Henry  Esmond     ......    Thackeray 

St.  Ives Stevenson 

The  Spy Cooper 


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THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

Novels  of  Plot  and  Problem 

To  those  who  enjoy  novels  with  strong  under- 
lying themes,  this  list,  prepared  by  Hamilton 
W.  Mabie  for  the  LADIES'  HOME  JOURNAL, 
will  offer  a  delightful  range  for  selection: 

"PROBLEM"  NOVELS 

Red  Pottage Cholmondeley 

Awakening  of  Helena  Richie      .      .      Deland 
Philip  and  His  Wife      ....      Deland 

The  Patriot Fogazzaro 

The  Saint Fogazzaro 

The  Sinner Fogazzaro 

The  Undercurrent Grant 

Unleavened  Bread Grant 

Tess  of  the  D'Urbervilles      .       .       .      Hardy 

Common  Lot Herrick 

Her  Son Vachell 

House  of  Mirth Wharton 

Fruit  of  the  Tree Wharton 

NOVELS  OF  SOCIOLOGICAL  SUBJECTS 

Put  Yourself  in  His  Place      .      .      .      Reade 
It  is  Never  Too  Late  to  Mend     .      .     Reade 

Felix  Holt,  the  Radical Eliot 

All  Sorts  and  Conditions  of  Men      .      Besant 

The  Pit Norris 

Fathers  and  Sons      ....      Turgenief 

Truth Zola 

Looking  Backward Bellamy 

Beggars  All Dougall 

Les  Miserables Hugo 

Uncle  Tom's  Cabin     .      .      -     .      .     Stowe 

NOVELS  OF  PLOT 

The  Moonstone Collins 

Treasure  Island     .     .     .     .     .     Stevenson 

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THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

Jane  Eyre Bronte 

Heart  of  Midlothian Scott 

Notre  Dame  de  Paris Hugo 

Never  Too  Late  to  Mend      .      .      .      Reade 
Mill  on  the  Floss      .      .      .      ...      Eliot 

Under  the  Greenwood  Tree     .      .      .     Hardy 
Our  Mutual  Friend      ....      Dickens 

The  Three  Musketeers     ....     Dumas 

Monte  Cristo      .      .      .      .     ,.       .     Dumas 

NOVELS  OF  CHARACTER  STUDY 

Pride  and  Prejudice Austen 

Sentimental  Tommy     .      .      ,     .      .     Barrie 

Middlemarch Eliot 

Anna  Karenina Tolstoi 

Joseph  Vance De  Morgan 

Mayor  of  Chesterbridge     ....     Hardy 

Scarlet  Letter     .     .      .     .     .     .     Hawthorne 

Rise  of  Silas  Lapham      ....      Howells 

Portrait  of  a  Lady      .....      James 

The  Egoist Meredith 

Sanctuary Wharton 

Divine  Fire Sinclair 

Vanity  Fair Thackeray 

Dr.  Jekyll  and  Mr.  Hyde      ...      Stevenson 

NOVELS  OF  REALISM 

Anna  Karenina     ......     Tolstoi 

Daisy  Miller     .       .       .       ...     James 

The  Bostonians     .     .     .     .     «;.-   .     .     James 

Adam  Bede     ...      .      .      .      .      .     Eliot 

Mill  on  the  Floss     ...      .      .      .     Eliot 

Oliver  Twist     .      .      ...     .      .      .     Dickens 

A  Pair  of  Blue  Eyes Hardy 

Hazard  of  New  Fortunes  .  .  .  Howells 
The  House  of  Mirth  ....  Wharton 
The  Common  Lot Herrick 

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THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

ROMANTIC  NOVELS 

Notre  Dame  de  Paris Hugo 

David  Balfour Stevenson 

St.  Ives Stevenson 

Prince  Otto Stevenson 

To  Have  and  to  Hold      ....    Johnston 

Charles  O'M  alley Lever 

Guy  Mannering Scott 

Quentin  Durward Scott 

Marble  Faun Hawthorne 

Mr.  Isaacs Crawford 

NOVELS  OF  HUMOR 

Vcar  of  Wakefield Goldsmith 

Under  the  Greenwood  Tree     .     .     .     Hardy 

Deephaven Jewett 

Rudder  Grange Stockton 

Oldtown  Folks Stowe 

Don  Quixote Cervantes 


[30] 


THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

Dr.  Eliot's  Five-Foot  Library 

Dr.  Charles  W.  Eliot,  President  Emeritus  of 
Harvard  University,  lately  announced  (New 
York,  P.  F.  Collier  &  Son)  his  intention  of 
selecting  a  group  of  books  to  fill  a  five-foot 
shelf,  in  the  belief  that  "the  faithful  and  con- 
siderate reading  of  these  books  will  give  any 
man  a  liberal  education  even  if  he  can  devote 
to  them  but  fifteen  minutes  a  day."  The 
titles  of  the  books  so  far  selected  are: 


Autobiography  of  Benjamin  Franklin 
The  Journal  of  John  Woolman 
Some  Fruits  of  Solitude        .        William  Penn 
-The  Apology,  Phaedo,  and  Crito  (translated  by 

Benjamin  Jowett)    ....      Plato 
The  Golden  Sayings  of  Epictetus  (translated  by 

H.  Crossley) 
The  Meditations  of  Marcus  Aurelius  (trans- 

lated by  J.  S.  Long) 
The  Essays  of  Francis  Bacon 
The  New  Atlantis  (Spedding  Text) 

........     Francis  Bacon 

Areopagitica    .......    John  Milton 

Tractate  on  Education      .     .     .    John  Milton 
Religio  Medici    ....    Sir  Thomas  Browne 

-The  Complete  Poems  of  John  Milton 
Essays  and  English  Traits 

.....     Ralph  Waldo  Emerson 
The  Poems  of  Robert  Burns 
The  Confessions  of  St.  Augustine  (Pusey  Text) 
The  Imitation  of  Christ    .    Thomas  a  Kempis 
Nine  Greek  Dramas:  Agamemnon,  The  Liba- 

tion-Bearers, The  Furies  (translated  by 

E.  D.  A.  Morshead    .      .        .dEschylus 

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THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

'  Prometheus    Bound    (translated    by    E.    H. 

Plumptre) ^Eschylus 

CEdipus  the  King,  Antigone  (translated  by  E. 

H.  Plumptre)       .       .       .       Sophocles 
,  Hippolytus,  The  Bacchae  (translated  by  Gilbert 

Murray) Euripides 

The  Frogs  (translated  by  B.  B.  Rogers) 

Aristophanes 

The  Letters  of  Cicero  (translated  by  E.  S. 

Shuckburgh) 
'Cicero's  Treatises  on  Friendship  and  Old  Age 

(translated  by  W.  Melmoth) 
The  Letters  of  Pliny   (revised  by  F.  C.  T. 

Bosanquet) 
The  Wealth  of  Nations  (edited  by  Professor  J. 

C.  Bullock,  Harvard  University) 

Adam  Smith 

The  Origin  of  Species     .      .     Charles  Darwin 
Lives    of    Themistocles ,    Pericles,    Aristides, 

Alcibiades,    Coriolanus,    Demosthenes, 

Cicero,     Caesar,     Antony     (from     the 

translation  known  as  Dryden's  corrected 

and  revised  by  Arthur  Hugh  Clough) 

Plutarch 

The  JEneid  (translated  by  John  Dryden) 

Virgil 

Don  Quixote  (translated  by  Thomas  Shelton) 

Cervantes 

Pilgrim's  Progress     ....     John  Bunyan 
The  Lives  of  Donne  and  Herbert 

Izaak  Walton 

Stories  from  the  Arabian  Nights  (Stanley  Lane- 

Poole  translation) 

Folk-Lore  and  Fables: 

^Esop's  Fables,  82  titles 

Grimm's  Household  Tales,  41  titles 

Tales  from  Hans  Christian  Andersen,  20  titles 

[32] 


THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

Modern  English  Drama: 

All  for  Love John  Dryden 

The  School  for  Scandal 

Richard  Brinsley  Sheridan 

She  Stoops  to  Conquer  .  Oliver  Goldsmith 
The  Cenci  .  .  .  Percy  Bysshe  Shelley 
A  Blot  in  the  'Scutcheon  .  Robert  Browning 

Manfred Lord  Byron 

Faust  (translated  by  Anna  Swanwick) 

Goethe 

Hermann  and  Dorothea  (translated  by  Ellen 

Frothingham)      ....      Goethe 
Egmont  (translated  by  Anna  Swanwick) 

Goethe 

Doctor  Faustus  .  .  Christopher  Marlowe 
The  Divine  Comedy  (Gary's  translation) 

Dante 

I  Promessi  Sposi  .  . ,  Alessandro  Manzoni 
The  Odyssey  of  Homer  (Butcher  and  Lang 

translation) 
Two  Years  Before  the  Mast 

Richard  Henry  Dana,  Jr. 

Essays  on  Taste ;  on  the  Sublime  and  Beautiful ; 

Reflections  on  the  French  Revolution; 

Letter  to  a  Noble  Lord 

Edmund  Burke 

Essays  on  Liberty;  Autobiography 

.      John  Stuart  Mill 
Inaugural  Address  as  Lord  Rector  of  Edinburgh 

University;   Characteristics;   Essay  on 

Scott Thomas  Carlyle 

Continental  Drama: 

Calderon  Moliere 

Corneille  Racine 

Lessing 

[33] 


THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

English  Essays: 

Abraham  Cowley  Charles  Lamb 

John  Locke  Thomas  de  Quincey 

Jonathan  Swift  Joseph  Addison 

Samuel  Johnson  Sir  Richard  Steele 

Sydney  Smith  Daniel  Defoe 

William  Hazlitt  David  Hume 

Coleridge  Percy  Bysshe  Shelley 

Leigh  Hunt  Thomas  B.  Macaulay 

English  and  American  Essays: 

Cardinal  Newman          Dean  Swift 
John  Ruskin  Matthew  Arnold 

James  A.  Froude  Walter  Bagehot 

Edward  A.  Freeman       Thomas  H.  Huxley 
Edgar  Allan  Poe  Robert  Louis  Stevenson 

James  Russell  Lowell     Henry  D.  Thoreau 

.     .     .     William  Makepeace  Thackeray 
The  Voyage  of  the  Beagle    .    Charles  Darwin 

Scientific    Papers — Chemistry,    Physics,    As- 
tronomy: 

Faraday  Helmholtz 

Lord  Kelvin  Newcomb 

Essays — French,  German,  Italian 

Montaigne  Mazzini 

Renan  Sainte-Beuve 

Schiller  Lessing 

Grimm  Goethe 
Kant 

Ancient  and  Elizabethan  Voyages  and  Travels: 

Herodotus  Tacitus 

Sir  Francis  Drake  Sir  Walter  Raleigh 

Sir  Humphrey  Gilbert  Magellan 

Coronado  Captain  John  Smith 

[34] 


THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

Descartes,  Voltaire,  etc. 

Scientific  Papers — Biology,  Medicine,  etc.,  in- 
cluding articles  by  Sir  John  Lister  and 
Ambroise  Pare 

Famous  Prefaces 

Caxton  Spenser 

Raleigh  Calvin 

John  Knox  Bacon 
Heminge  and  Condell     Dryden 

Fielding  Johnson 

Schiller  Taine 

Whitman  Wordsworth 

Berners  Newton 

American  Historical  Documents,  containing  40 
important  documents,  such  as 

Cabots'  Voyage 
Columbus's  Letter 
First  Charter  of  Virginia 
Mayflower  Compact 
Cornwallis's  Proposal  of  Surrender 
Washington's  First  Inaugural 
Monroe  Doctrine 
Lincoln's  First  Inaugural 
Lincoln's  Second  Inaugural 

Chronicles 

National  Epics 

iMachiavelli,  More,  and  others 

Comparative  Religions  and  Hymns 

Elizabethan  Dramas 

[35] 


THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 


Roosevelt's  Pigskin  Library 

Selected  by  Ex-President  Theodore  Roose- 
velt for  his  famous  African  trip,  as  published 
in  SCRIBNER'S  MAGAZINE: 

Bible 

Apocrypha 

Bible  in  Spain;  Zingali;  Lavengro;  Wild  Wales; 
The  Romany  Rye      .      .      .      Borrow 
Shakespeare 

Faerie  Queene Spenser 

Marlowe 

Sea  Power Mahan 

History;  Essays;  Poems       .        .       Macaulay 

Iliad;  Odyssey Homer 

La  Chanson  de  Roland 

Nibelungen  Lied 

Frederick  the  Great      ....      Carlyle 

Poems Shelley 

Essays Bacon 

Literary  Essays;  Biglow  Papers       .       Lowell 

Poems Emerson 

Longfellow 
Tennyson 

Tales;  Poems Poe 

Keats 

Paradise  Lost  (Books  I  &  II)  .  .  Milton 
Inferno  (Carlyle's  translation)  *  Dante 
Autocrat;  Over  the  Teacups  .  .  Holmes 
Poems;  Tales  of  the  Argonauts;  Luck  of  Roar- 
ing Camp Bret  Harte 

Selections Browning 

Gentle  Reader Crothers 

Huckleberry  Finn;  Tom  Sawyer  .  Mark  Twain 

Pilgrim's  Progress Bunyan 

Hippolytus;  Bacchae  (Murray's  translation) 

Euripides 

The  Federalist 

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THE       WORLD'S       BEST       BOOKS 

Rome Gregorovius 

Legend  of  Montrose;  Guy  Mannering;  Waverly 
Rob  Roy;  Antiquary       .        .       Scott 
Pilot;  Two  Admirals      ....      Cooper 
Froissart 
Percy's  Reliques 

Vanity  Fair;  Pendennis       .       .       Thackeray 
Mutual  Friend;  Pickwick     .      .      .     Dickens 

"There  was  one  other  bit  of  impedimenta,  less 
usual  for  African  travel,  but  perhaps  almost  as 
essential  for  real  enjoyment  even  on  a  hunting 
trip,  if  it  is  to  be  of  any  length.  This  was  the 
'pigskin  library,'  so  called  because  most  of  the 
books  were  bound  in  pigskin.  They  were  car- 
ried in  a  light  aluminum  and  oilcloth  case, 
which,  with  its  contents,  weighed  a  little  less 
than  sixty  pounds,  making  a  load  for  one 
porter. 

"The  list  represents  in  part  Kermit's  taste,  in 
part  mine;  and,  I  need  hardly  say,  it  also  rep- 
resents in  no  way  all  the  books  we  most  care 
for,  but  merely  those  which,  for  one  reason  or 
another,  we  thought  we  should  like  to  take  on 
this  particular  trip." 


[37] 


True  books  have  been  written  in  all  ages  by 
their  greatest  men;  by  great  leaders,  great 
statesmen,  and  great  thinkers.  These  are  all 
at  your  choice;  and  life  is  short.  Will  you 
jostle  with  the  common  crowd,  for  entree  here, 
and  audience  there,  when  all  the  while  this 
eternal  court  is  open  to  you,  with  its  society  as 
the  world,  multitudinous  as  its  days,  the 
chosen  and  the  mighty,  of  every  place  and 
time? 

— RUSKIN:    Sesame  and  Lilies. 


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